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Riya Raagini & Pratyush Pushkar a.k.a. Bariya is a queer transdisciplinary artist and writer duo from New Delhi, India.
Their practice flowers from intersections inhabited by sincere ecological & decolonial awareness and meditation probing through subjective consciousness(ing). Theirs is a request to examine and host alternative forms of cognition, listening, un-identity, spirituality, and active resolve.
With commitments to non-cooperation and queer care, they synthesize and reconcile through ever-evolving sonics (& debris); poetry; images; Hindi culture & languaging; philosophy; and digital affinity & tactility.
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Kalachakra gathers temporal hacks within an archive of translated Hindi poetry spanning epochs. Synthesizing fragments in Hindi poetics with contrapuntal plead and spirituality, BaRiya’s anthology represents language’s quantum and inherited nature. Or with what they describe as »chants and lore emanating from language’s dips into temporal devices, of disrememberment, of devotion, of ruins, of elsewhere(s), of waiting, of delays; of restfulness.«
Grains of poetry in noncooperation,
threaded into night ragas, flowing (soul techno) through Bromine...
Track 'Gold' is a part of a radio loop to be played for a 1000 years into the future at Bauhaus University, Weimar, Germany. Futurenostalgia.fm .
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